Watching the World Cup on Mobile TV
Mobile providers and manufacturers are anticipating record sales of digital-television enabled handsets this season, with the World Cup starting two months from now. However, with unexpected delays in licensing and hardware production, fans may be in for quite a disappointment.
Although major supplier Samsung Electronics earlier this year unveiled a terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) phone, the first of its kind for commercial services in Europe, the Korean company decided to delay manufacturing and shipping while it awaited the outcome of a complicated license allocation process in Germany, which is still not completed, according to German news service Heise Online.
Telcos are banking on the World Cup in their plans to launch their respective digital-TV setups. For instance, in Germany, viewers can watch German such channels as ZDF, N24, MTV for a subscription of EUR 9.90 per month. Mobile phone TV is much anticipated for a national rollout in the country after the World Cup.
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